Comfort in Sound

From the stereo or from my guitar, I feel like I'm sinking into music at the moment.

It's the same feeling as when a comfortable sofa gives underneath your weight and in that gentle settling, there is a relaxing and a release of tension.

That's how me and music are getting along at the moment, which is a good thing to have to fall back on. Music was my first love, and all that...

I am discovering new depths to albums I had given only a superficial listen to before, and finding that I actually love this but I'm not too keen on that...but what I'm needing at the moment is good compilations.

Compilations were a great thing back in the day when I would buy one CD every few months, because if a good one came out it could give you all the singles that made you want too many expensive albums. The first compilation I got was Now 34...Ini Kimose, Weezer's Buddy Holly, Blur's Parklife, Oasis' Some Might Say...I can practically recite the track listing.

(I'm a bit wary of all this talk about music, because what with the Autoblography's layout and whatnot, I'm scared that I'm living through the plot of High Fidelity)

Anyway, now I want a good few compilations because I'm hungry for a variety of sounds and my stereo is getting stuck up. It always used to be a bit of a snob; not playing the free CDs from the front of Melody Maker and NME...sometimes it would even turn it's nose up at CD singles from small independent labels - I remember being most annoyed that The Divine Comedy's National Express wouldn't play. It thinks CD-Rs are below it most of the time, but bizarrely, some are fine.

For a time I developed a method of getting the thing to acknowledge the existence of these CDs. Spin the disc before closing the lid, wait for the jiggle noise, turn spinny thing to track 8, lift corner of stereo, wait for second jiggle noise, drop stereo gently, wait for the 'Ah-hah! I thought I'd lost it but there it is!' noise from the stereo (said in a frightfully posh voice, obviously). Turn spinny thing to track 1. Listen to CD.

Now even this doesn't work, so sometimes I have my personal CD player hooked up through the AUX. But it's a lot of bother. So instead of chopping and changing the CDs every time I want to listen to something different, I have a couple of options.

1. Steal Sue Stamp (the robot DJ) from Radio Warwick, with the downside that they'd probably notice.
2. Steal Studio 2 from RaW, same problem.
3. Buy a new stereo
4. Ask those nice wonderful people in Blogland if they fancy making me a Mix CD.

Ahem.

Update: I forgot to say: I shall reciprocate in kind...and I give GOOD mix.